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Graffiti Conjecture 806

Let SS be the set of square-free integers in [2,n][2, n] and G=PR[S]G = PR[S] the graph on SS in which two integers are adjacent when they are not coprime. From the cases n100n \le 100 and about twenty further values n200n \le 200, Graffiti conjectured that the largest adjacency eigenvalue λ1(G)\lambda_1(G) is at most the number of distinct vertex degrees. False. At n=51n = 51 the graph has 3131 vertices, 1111 distinct degrees and λ1>11.846\lambda_1 > 11.846; the conjecture fails again for every nn from 786786 to 50005000, and the deficit λ1D\lambda_1 - D grows roughly linearly in nn, so no additive correction λ1D+C\lambda_1 \le D + C survives either.

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Graffiti Conjecture 806

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The repository supplies an executable verifier in exact integer arithmetic; for n=51n = 51 an integer vector xx satisfies xTAx>11xTxx^{T}Ax > 11\,x^{T}x, so λ1>11=D\lambda_1 > 11 = D. The deficit λ1(n)D(n)\lambda_1(n) - D(n) grows through n=5000n = 5000 in the repository's computations, but no asymptotic theorem proving divergence is claimed, so "false for every constant CC" is a computed pattern, not a proved one. One anomaly, which the…

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Let SS be the set of square-free integers in [2,n][2, n] and G=PR[S]G = PR[S] the graph on SS in which two integers are adjacent when they are not coprime. From the cases n100n \le 100 and about twenty further values n200n \le 200, Graffiti conjectured that the largest adjacency eigenvalue λ1(G)\lambda_1(G) is at most the number of distinct vertex degrees. False. At n=51n = 51 the graph has 3131 vertices, 1111 distinct degrees and λ1>11.846\lambda_1 > 11.846; the conjecture fails again for every nn from 786786 to 50005000, and the deficit λ1D\lambda_1 - D grows roughly linearly in nn, so no additive correction λ1D+C\lambda_1 \le D + C survives either.

The repository supplies an executable verifier in exact integer arithmetic; for n=51n = 51 an integer vector xx satisfies xTAx>11xTxx^{T}Ax > 11\,x^{T}x, so λ1>11=D\lambda_1 > 11 = D. The deficit λ1(n)D(n)\lambda_1(n) - D(n) grows through n=5000n = 5000 in the repository's computations, but no asymptotic theorem proving divergence is claimed, so "false for every constant CC" is a computed pattern, not a proved one. One anomaly, which the repository records itself: n=51n = 51 lies inside the range Graffiti is said to have tested when it made the conjecture.

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  • Let SS be the set of square-free integers in [2,n][2, n] and G=PR[S]G = PR[S] the graph on SS in which two integers are adjacent when they are not coprime. From the cases n100n \le 100 and about twenty further values…

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